Campus Review Home To Infinity and Beyond: Where will the Square Kilometre Array take us?. Educators say this massive, $2 billion Square Kilometre Array (SKA) – to be shared with South Africa and New Zealand– will boost research here and, hopefully, increase the number of students studying science. The SKA will be the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope and is a global science and engineering project, which may even be capable of detecting extra-terrestrial life in the far corners of the universe, if it exists. Macquarie Stonewalls on Staff Review The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is planning to take Macquarie University to the Administrative … [Read more...]
The Scan 31 May 2012
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Control and click headlines and highlights to link to articles Links may not work unless you or your organisation is a paid subscriber to the originating media outlet. Check with your communications people about subscriptions. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ $70k to walk a $17 million tightrope Victorian TAFEs will be given $70,000 each to help plot the way forward, in the wake of this month’s funding cuts, which the TAFEs estimate will cost them about $300m a year - around $17 million a year each. The grants to the state’s 18 institutes are designed to help them develop “transition plans”. At a … [Read more...]
The Scan 24 May 2012
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Control and click headlines and highlights to link to articles Links may not work unless you or your organisation is a paid subscriber to the originating media outlet. Check with your communications people about subscriptions. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Feds, Vic square off over TAFE funding Victoria risks losing up to $196 million in vocational training funds after the Commonwealth government slammed it over TAFE budget cuts. Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans told an “emergency meeting” with Victorian TAFE directors that the Commonwealth has serious concerns that the cuts would eat away at the … [Read more...]
The Scan 26 April 2012
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Control and click headlines and highlights to link to articles Links may not work unless you or your organisation is a paid subscriber to the originating media outlet. Check with your communications people about subscriptions. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Measuring research impact Universities seeking to develop broader measure of research impact Dozens of industry experts are being sought to serve on eight panels for an Australia-first audit of the impact that university research has on the economy, society and environment. Twelve universities, including the Group of Eight, have joined a … [Read more...]
The Scan 19 April 2012
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Control and click headlines and highlights to link to articles Links may not work unless you or your organisation is a paid subscriber to the originating media outlet. Check with your communications people about subscriptions. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Salary showdown on cards Universities and the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) appear headed for a showdown over a claim for pay rises of more than 20% over 3 years. The NTEU is expected to seek annual salary increases of 7% for staff – a claim branded ludicrous by the employer group, the Australian Higher Education Industrial … [Read more...]
The Scan – 9 February 2012
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Control and click headlines and highlights to link to articles, Links may not work unless you or your organisation is a paid subscriber to the originating media outlet. Check with your communications people about subscriptions. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Knight Review: Visas options discussion paper released The Australian 7 February 2012 The Knight Review of student visas noted that Assessment Level framework (AL) framework has not kept pace with changes in the scale and complexity of the student visa program and recommended the government review it (although there have been 7 other reviews over … [Read more...]
The Scan – 16 February 2012
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Control and click headlines and highlights to link to articles, Links may not work unless you or your organisation is a paid subscriber to the originating media outlet. Check with your communications people about subscriptions. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Research block funding announced Research block indexed grant funding is up by more than $100 million this year across universities, with the Group of Eight maintaining the lion's share, at 64.8%, up slightly from last year's 64.5%. Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research Minister Chris Evans has confirmed a total of $1.63 billion for … [Read more...]
2 February 2012 – Archive
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Control and click headlines and highlights to link to articles, Links may not work unless you or your organisation is a paid subscriber to the originating media outlet. Check with your communications people about subscriptions. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Kwong's Gong Emeritus Professor Kwong Lee Dow has been made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his distinguished service to education in Australia as an administrator, scholar and contributor to major curriculum reforms, through executive roles with education advisory bodies, and to the community. Also honoured were: Professor … [Read more...]